ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) (01/23/90)
I haven't been in touch with the real world for a few weeks now, so
I need to know if Intel has posponed the release of the 486 chip, or
if Intel has canned the the release of the 486 chip. I have heard
rumors of both, but I figure someone reading this news group could
better inform me. I've written to Intel about it, but I'm still waiting
for a respose.
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In article <6641@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) writes: > >I haven't been in touch with the real world for a few weeks now, so I'll say! Intel just announced 1989 revenues. Along with the announcement was some comments saying that demand for the i486 is "strong"(1). Tim, what you probably heard about was echoes of the bugs announced in November. I believe that most have been fixed, or fixes are published. Intel is obviously not going to stop production of it's next big moneymaker. (1) Dataquest report, Monday January 22, 1990 --Richard Vireday Intel Corporation ...!{intelhf|intelca}!mipos3!pldote!rvireday3 ------------ Disclaimer: These are my opinions, except those I borrowed.
wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe) (01/24/90)
In article <6641@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) writes: > >I haven't been in touch with the real world for a few weeks now, so >I need to know if Intel has posponed the release of the 486 chip, or >if Intel has canned the the release of the 486 chip. I have heard >rumors of both, but I figure someone reading this news group could >better inform me. I've written to Intel about it, but I'm still waiting >for a respose. > Yes, you *have* been out of touch with rumors like that. Intel has fixed the "obscure" floating point bug in the internal FPU and is now churning them out as fast as they can. I think Intel would release buggy silicon before they'd ever "can" the 80486. And I believe the silicon on the 486 is cleaner in this release than that for the 80386 when it was first released.